Cigarette Quotes: A Collection of Smokin' Sayings

"Avoid using cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs as alternatives to being an interesting person"

"I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine"

"My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her"

Loni Anderson, Actress

"My memory of my mom is a wine glass in one hand and a cigarette in the other. She was a runway fashion model, and she was quite a glamorous woman"

Loni Anderson, Actress

"If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them"

Loni Anderson, Actress

"There are some circles in America where it seems to be more socially acceptable to carry a hand-gun than a packet of cigarettes"

Katherine Whitehorn, Journalist

"Impotence is one of the major hazards of cigarette smoking"

Loni Anderson, Actress

"It's amazing to me that young people will still pick up a cigarette"

Loni Anderson, Actress

"Three cigarettes in, your body already craves it. It is that addictive"

Loni Anderson, Actress

"In the movies, Bette Davis lights two cigarettes and hands the second one to James Cagney. It was just so glamorous and romantic"

Loni Anderson, Actress

"Far too many times over the next 12 to 15 years, it was brought to my attention that people who followed my exercise guidelines exactly but ignored their diet, their weight and their cigarette smoking had heart attacks at age 55"

Kenneth H. Cooper, Soldier

"Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes"

Herb Alpert, Musician

"Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray"

Milan Kundera, Writer

"That's what I do... Some people smoke weed, some people smoke cigarettes, some people snort coke... I pop pills, I smoke and I drink syrup, that's my twist"

Beanie Sigel, Musician

"When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco"

Arturo Toscanini, Musician

"For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings"

Joan Miro, Artist

"I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines"

Jimmy Breslin, Entertainer

"Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard"

Ed Markey, Politician

"Suddenly Star Wars came out while we were on hiatus, and we looked like the old Buck Rogers series, where they had cigarette smoke blowing out the back of the rocket ship"

Gregory Harrison, Actor

"It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it"

John Glover, Actor

"I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of customers we need!"

Jesse Helms, Politician

"I was in London. It's a long way to go for a very long party, sitting there for six hours not having a cigarette or a drink. It's a waste of time"

Albert Finney, Actor

"As for the herbal cigarettes, for the most part I don't smoke as much as the guys do. I'm usually just strutting around a bit more so I don't actually have to be inhaling it. I'm lucky because I do have scenes where the cigarettes work beautifully to punctuate certain things I'm saying"

Christina Hendricks, Actress

"Nobody should smoke cigarettes - and smoking with an ulcer is like pouring gasoline on a burning house"

Sara Murray Jordan

"Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette"

Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, Novelist

"I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living"

Lexa Doig, Actress

"Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya"

Tommy Chong, Actor

"I'm going to sit back, light up, and hope I don't chew the cigarette to pieces"

Vin Scully, Celebrity

"Coffee and cigarettes, that's one of my weaknesses"

Jason Behr, Actor

"The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something"

Barney Ross, Athlete

"You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes"

Vin Diesel, Actor

"If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day"

Robin Wright Penn, Actress

"Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up"

Jack LaLanne, Athlete

"This was in '79. I got pretty restless there, sitting around with a lot of people sitting around smoking cigarettes and talking about films, but nobody really doing anything"

Renny Harlin, Director

"I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven't had time for tobacco since"

Arturo Toscanini, Musician

"If you want to talk to me, you'll have to put out that cigarette"

Jimmy Piersall, Athlete

"James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond"

Ken Follett, Author

"Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, every tax when they make a purchase"

Luis Gutierrez, Politician

"Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit"

Joe Eszterhas, Writer

"An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes"

Melissa Leo, Actress

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